Writing vers resource to files

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#1

I am trying to automate the processing of bundles after they are created with Installer VISE. I want to dive into the package and modify the ‘vers’ resource of the main application file.

I’ve tried using the Santimage OSAX and also tried scripting Resorcerer itself. I think it may work if I understood how to fomat the data. But after a couple days of searching for examples and experimenting on my own, I can’t seem to get it to work.

The closest I have gotten is:


tell application "Resorcerer 2.4.1 (OSX)"
  open file "myInstaller"
  set the contents of resource {"vers", 1} of file 1 to {1, 0, "final", 0, "VerUS", "1.0", "1.0, Copyright © 1996 Your Company"}
end tell

This puts some data into the ‘vers’ resource, but not the data I am trying to tell it. For example, rather than ending up with version 1.0.0 in the resource, I get 64.4.12 or something like that

Does anyone know of an easy way to write the ‘vers’ version resource information using AppleScript?

Thank you.

Trever Wilhelm

#2

Is the file that you want to modify a plist? If so, you might be able to use the shell’s ‘defaults’ to do this (it can be wrapped neatly with AppleScript). Check out ‘man defaults’ in the Terminal.

#3

Thanks for the tip Rob. That may come in handy down the road. But for now, this is a file with a data and resource fork. Not a plist file.

I will also need to edit the plist at the upper level of the bundle. But I need to change the ‘vers’ resource for OS 9 systems.

Sincerely,
Trever

#4

Here you can find a little editable jewel:
http://www.macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/category.php?search=versiongui
It was written for OS 9 and uses Dialog Director for the GUI and Akua Sweets for hex-encoding-decoding and read/write resources.
You can easilly create vanilla solutions for hex encoding-decoding and satimage osax for read-write resources.
So, you may need only the encodedata handler from VersionGUI, which is easilly adaptable…